Since the earliest of sacred imaginings among the world^Òs peoples
transplantation of spiritual expressions has been an ongoing process.
Emerging more than a millennium ago, two great pilgrimage traditions in
Europe proper and the Indian subcontinent were produced from the dynamic
intertwining of indigenous folk practices with literate ritual systems.
Communities practicing these traditions of sacred circulation were
transplanted via massive migrations to far-flung European colonial empires
over the past 500 years with varying degrees of success in establishing
their traditions in their new homelands. This study will explore the
constellation of factors that influence the degree of success that specific
Catholic and Hindu communities have experienced in recreating sacred
circulation in their contemporary forms.